Top five German football stadiums | Great Hotels' online luxury travel magazine Top five German football stadiums by Eche Egbuonu The Bundesliga is one of Europeâs most entertaining leagues and one that locals fervently support. This is illustrated by the highest average attendance in Europe that was achieved throughout the 2010/2011 season. At 42,673 average fans per game the Bundesliga averaged over 7,000 more fans than the second-placed premier league. Some of Euro 2012âs most high profile players including Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben play in the Bundesliga. There are some great football stadiums in Germany that should be visited during your special city break in Germany. Allianz Arena This stadium has been the home ground of Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 since the start of the 2005/2006 season. The structural design of the ground embodies innovation and deviates from archetypical conventions. The flat outer faÃ§ade the stadium with an almost surreal aura that is both poetic and captivating.

With its rhombus shaped transparent casings a variety of colours can be projected, which helps to set the mood for games. As for the interior of the stadium, the three terraces hold nearly 70,000 and possess fantastic acoustics that quickly transforms the ground to a cauldron during thrilling matches. Eurostars Grand Central is an amazing hotel in the centre of Munich, the perfect location from which to discover the charm of the Allianz Arena along with the cityâs other attractions. Signal Iduna Park The otherwise unexceptional industrial municipality of Dortmund is a fundamental pilgrimage for any football fan. It is impossible to have properly understood European football fan culture until youâve set foot on the SÃ¼dtribune, Europeâs biggest football terrace, at Signal Iduna Park (more commonly referred to as the Westfalenstadion). The modernisation of Europeâs football grounds has seen large standing areas like Liverpoolâs Kop replaced by seats, but the custom lives on in Germany due to fan power preserving the culture. There are not many better experiences for a football fan than cheering watching a game surrounded by 25,000 hollering fans.

With cheap entrance prices and great beer on offer you can be sure for an exceptional night out watching the football. Visit Signal Iduna Park during your leading city break in Dortmund. Olympiastadion The Olympiastadion in Berlin was originally built in 1972 in order to host the Olympic Games. It later became the site of several major soccer events and also served as the backdrop for a number of stellar concert events. Aside from its use as an Olympic sports ground, the Olympiastadion has a strong footballing tradition, as it has been the ground of Hertha BSC since 1963. It was also used for three matches in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. More recently, it hosted six games of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, including the final, and was revamped for the occasion. The Heckerâs Hotel in Berlin is close to the stadium and offers a private ambience and outstanding service during your football trip to Germany. Veltins Arena With its retracting roof and slide-out field, Schalke's pitch is one of the best in Europe, and so is the ambience inside the stadium.

Schalke's fantastic fans are among the most zealous in Germany. Regardless of how badly the team plays they still turn out in droves, and they definitely know how to support their club. A Ruhr derby with VfL Bochum or Borussia Dortmund is not for the weak hearted. The facilities in the stadium have consistently set new standards. Suspended from the middle of the stadium roof is a large video cube with a screen on each side, providing every spectator with an incredible sight of match highlights, goal flashes and other displays. Oddly enough, the Veltins Arena also features a chapel which has been used for many weddings and christenings. A Day out at the Veltins arena shoud be on itinerary of a German football stadium tour. Borussia Park This great stadium in Monchengladbach opened in 2004 and is the biggest Bundesliga stadium to not be used as a 2006 World Cup venue. The stadium is home to Borussia Monchengladbach, a club that has some of the most die-hard fans in Germany.

It was because of the influence of fan-power that resulted in the stadium being built with standing areas that house at least 15,000 fans â an area of the stadium that is filled with hardcore hollering fans. Borussia-Park has a maximum stadium capacity of 54067 spectators. It is one of the few âtrueâ football stadia in Germany as it does not have a running track and enables fans to be closer to the action. An ideal destination for a Leading weekend adventure in Monchengladbach. Top 100 Stadiums in World Football | Bleacher Report Top 100 Stadiums in World Football By Sam Tighe , World Football Tactics Lead Writer Dec 18, 2014 Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse the slideshow STR/Associated Press Comments Welcome to B/R's index of the top 100 stadiums in world football. Whether you're looking for inspiration for your bucket list, an avid traveller of stadia or just intrigued as to what's out there, you've come to the right place.

Share your experiences of the world's best and most intriguing stadiums in the comments below—we'd love to hear what your favourites are and why! How They're Ranked and Contributing Factors Adam Nurkiewicz/Getty Images The stadiums are ranked based on a mixed grading system that takes into account the following criteria: Atmosphere: How loud, proud and ferocious are the fans? Value: Is watching your team burning a hole in your pocket, or an easy-access day out? Size: The more spectators the better, right? Entertainment: Grounds that have seen wonderful teams of old will receive a bump. The quality of football is vital. The best combine the lot, but some stadiums that don't see enough regular football have been discounted. The National Stadium in Beijing and North Korea's Rungrado 1st of May are discounted for this reason, and the likes of the Millennium Stadium and Hampden Park are, too. Capacity: 80,700 Tenants: Borussia Dortmund The Westfalenstadion, known for sponsorship reasons as Signal Iduna Park, is home to Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund.

Whether they're fighting for the UEFA Champions League title or sitting on a six-game losing streak at the bottom of the Bundesliga, the crowd—and in particular the Sudtribune—make it a night to remember. The "Yellow Wall" holds more than 25,000 fans in one stand and bounces up and down in unison all game long. The sheer size of the stadium, in addition to the incredible atmosphere, incredible value and overall experience, makes it our No. 1 in the world. Borussia Dortmund - About Dortmund - dortmund.de Borussia Dortmund - About Dortmund - dortmund.de About Dortmund BVB - Champions League Cup - 1997 Picture: Broschüre Sportstadt Dortmund 2001 Borussia Dortmund also called BVB is a German sports club based in Dortmund and one of the most successful football clubs in Germany. The team from Borussia Dortmund plays in the Bundesliga, the top level of the German football league system. Dortmund is one of the most successful clubs in German football history. They are the current Bundesliga champions and cup winners (season 2011/2012). Furthermore they won eight German championships and three DFB Cup victories.

In 1966, BVB won the European Cup as the first German club ever as well as 1997 the Champions League Cup. In the same year for the clubs the World cup was won. Legendary players of Borussia are Manfred Burgsmüller, Lothar Emmerich, Michael Rummenigge, Michael Zorc, Matthias Sammer, Jürgen Kohler, Lars Ricken and Dedê. Presently among the best players are Mario Götze, Mats Hummels and Robert Lewandowski. Signal Iduna Park - The yellow pylons give the stadium its characteristic exterior Picture: Borussia Dortmund Since 1974, the club carries out its home games at Signal Iduna Park (in the past called Westfalenstadion). The stadium is the biggest stadium in Germany and the sixth biggest in Europe. Signal Iduna Park has undergone several renovations throughout the years to increase the size of the stadium, including an expansion of the stadium for 2006 FIFA World Cup. In 2011, Borussia Dortmund installed a black solar system on the roof of Signal Iduna Park from Q-Cells.

The renovations made the Dortmund stadium the biggest “football opera” of Germany. The south stand, "Die Südtribüne" is the largest free-standing grandstand in Europe. Fans call it "Die gelbe Wand", which means "Yellow Wall" Picture: Dortmund-Agentur / Soeren Spoo Borussia Dortmund’s colours are black and yellow and the motto is “Echte Liebe” in English “True Love”. As a result of the expansion today, the biggest football stadium in Germany is located on the “Strobelalle” with a capacity of 80,645 visitors. Moreover Signal Iduna Park is famous for its biggest standing stand area. The south stand called “Südtribune” in German is not by far the biggest standing tribune of Europe. It is the epicenter of Dortmund’s football enthusiasm, the heart or perhaps the soul of the BVB. Here are standing the truest of the true fans every game in all weather conditions. Fan celebration at Borsigplatz Dortmund for the DFB - Cup Picture: Dieter Menne, Ruhr Nachrichten Borussia Dortmund has organized over 500 official fan clubs around the world.

However the main focus of the fans, comes from Borussia Dortmund and the Westphalian region. The stadium at the "Strobelallee" is simply called "The Temple" by the fans and quite often called "the nicest stadium in the world" by press, professionals and celebrities. To know what this football spirit of BVB is like, you should visit Dortmund as the football city in Germany. further information Stadium Guide: Signal Iduna Park, Borussia Dortmund Stadium Guide: Signal Iduna Park, Borussia Dortmund 0shares 0shares Signal Iduna Park is the biggest stadium in Germany and houses the biggest crowds in European football. Dortmund is one of 150 soccer cities featured in Libero , the digital travel guide for football fans. Regularly refreshed with new destinations and travelogues, Libero is a one-click treasure trove of football trip tips, tales and trivia. See . Signal Iduna Park: Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04, Bundesliga, Sunday Nov 8/1530 CET-1430 UK time Dortmund is built on beer and football.

Set in Germany’s industrial Ruhrgebiet, with a compact and pedestrianised centre, Dortmund is very much a one-club city – and that one club, Borussia , attracts the highest average attendance in the world game. This is where you find, and hear, the Yellow Wall, famously comprised of 25,000 gathered on football’s largest remaining standing terrace, the Südtribune of the 81,645-capacity Signal Iduna Park . And the day of the Revierderby with local rivals Schalke 04 is when you hear the Wall in full wail. Still commonly known as the Westfalenstadion, the arena is the biggest football stadium in Germany, no mean feat. Behind it, still operating as the club’s reserve-team ground, is the BVB’s previous home of the Rote Erde. Opened as part of the Volkspark communal sports complex in 1926, the ‘Red Earth’ hosted mainly athletics meets before Borussia moved there in 1937.

Previously, the club had been based at the Weisse Wiese on Wambeler Strasse, near Borsigplatz, BVB’s spiritual home north-east of town where you’ll still find bars decked out in yellow-and-black memorabilia. Relocating to the Rote Erde south of the city centre, Borussia began to enjoy considerable post-war success. First came the team spearheaded by the Three Alfredos – in actual fact, three Alfreds, Preißler, Kelbassa and Niepieklo. But BVB really took off in the mid-1960s. With Siggi Held, Reinhard ‘Stan’ Libuda and Lothar Emmerich, Borussia won league, cup and the Cup Winners’ Cup of 1966, the first German club to win a European trophy. Holding a capacity 42,000, the Rote Erde was heaving on big nights, such as during the European Cup run of 1963-64 and high-profile games against Benfica, Dukla Prague and Internazionale. A new stadium had long been proposed.

In 1971, Cologne turned down the chance of being a venue for 1974 World Cup, so the opportunity, and the funds, passed to Dortmund. A football-specific stadium, right next door to the Rote Erde, was duly built: the Westfalenstadion. First staging the Revierderby with Schalke04 that April, this 54,000-capacity ground hosted four games for the finals, including the de facto semi between Holland and Brazil. By then, Borussia were wallowing in the second flight. After a lengthy dip in form, Borussia bounced back under Ottmar Hitzfeld to hit the top again in the 1990s. With a team of returnees from Serie A – Matthias Sammer, Andreas Moller, Jurgen Kohler – Dortmund won the Champions League in 1997. Shortly afterwards, always packed the rafters, the Westfalenstadion increased capacity to 68,600, then 83,000. For the 2006 World Cup, architects Engels and Partners unveiled €35ml worth of improvements, including five video screens.

Capacity fell back to an all-seated 65,000 – not that many would have been calmly sitting down during Germany’s epic semi-final with Italy, decided on two last-gasp goals from the visitors. Thereafter, the stadium reverted back to its sponsored name of the Signal Iduna Park and capacity has slowly been creeping up, for domestic fixtures at least, ever since. While the largest average attendance in Europe fills the famed Südtribune at one end, most of the Nord at the other, and West and Ost on the sidelines, away fans are allocated an upper corner of the Nordtribune. On the ground The stadium is south of town, a 25-minute walk from the centre down Hohe Straße. On match days, the nearby stop at Signal Iduna Park operates on the U45 line, which otherwise runs as far Westfalenhallen, ten minutes’ walk from the stadium ahead of you to your right. Exit left out of the train for Ausgang Süd, before walking past Rosenterrassen for Strobelallee. Online ticket sales are dealt with by Eventim . You pick up tickets two hours before kick-off at the Hinterlegunskasse Nord on Strobelallee.

There are six main categories, excluding the sold-out standing Stehplätze behind the goal. Affordable blue category 4 is close to the action in the corners, with yellow 5 and green 6 behind. The best seats are in the Osttribune. Five ‘Top-Spielen’ (including games with Bayern) are 20% dearer and limit the customer to two tickets only – otherwise, it’s four per person. Also bear in mind that in 2014, Borussia Dortmund set up a scheme for weekend match packages with nearby hotels, comprising upscale accommodation, match tickets and various discounts and souvenirs thrown in. For details see en.best-travel.de/sports-football-travel/home-match-packages.html for details. The two-storey BVB Fanshop (Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, match day Sun from 1pm, and 1hr after home games) in the gleaming August-Lenz-Haus on Strobelallee is awash with yellow-and-black souvenirs.

In Dortmund’s main square of Markt, the Fanshop Krone (Mon-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 10am-6pm) and adjacent Karstadt Sport both sell BVB merchandise. The history of BVB is told at the excellent Borusseum (daily 10am-6pm, match days until kick-off; €6/under-18s €4, under 6s free). This detailed and visually entertaining history, in German only, starts with a replica of the pre-war bar Zum Wildschütz where Borussia were founded, moving onto original TV re-runs of vintage triumphs (note Libuda’s sublime winning lob of 1966) and many things to press, open, watch and listen to. German-language stadium tours (€10/€7 under-18s) last 75mins and take place two or three times a day during the week, hourly 12.15pm-4.15pm at weekends, not match days. Tickets include entry into the Borusseum, where visitors should gather.

To the immediate left of the stadium as you look face on, Strobels , named after the architect who built the Rote Erder, is a party-minded bar/restaurant with an adjoining terrace. Alongside, the traditional Kronen Biergarten overlooks the Rote Erde pitch, offering beer from one hut and grilled sausages from another. At the game, an army of vendors and multitude of kiosks dispense real beer and sausages. Free Newsletter Germany's Bundesliga takes a stand by keeping faith with noisy fans | David Conn | Football | The Guardian Inside sport blog Germany's Bundesliga takes a stand by keeping faith with noisy fans In marked contrast to clubs in the Premier League, Germany's top teams are trying to nurture football's soul • See Gary Calton's pictures from Signa Iduna Park A fan on Westfalenstadion's Yellow Wall, where 25,000 fans pay less than £10 to stand for Bundesliga games.

Photograph: Gary Calton for the Guardian Sunday 2 December 2012 16.01 EST First published on Sunday 2 December 2012 16.01 EST Share on Messenger Close Manchester City supporters crowding into Borussia Dortmund's away end for their final group stage match of the Champions League on Tuesdaywill not face the renowned south stand in its full "Yellow Wall" grandeur. Uefa's requirements that all stadiums in its competitions must be all-seater mean Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park, still called the Westfalenstadion by Dortmund devotees, is reduced to a 65,718 capacity from the 80,100 for all German league matches. At Bundesliga games, the south stand is a mesmerisingly high, wide, monumental standing area, peopled by 25,000 Dortmund supporters roaring, singing, and waving huge flags. It is one of European football's great spectacles, dressed in Borussia's yellow.

The fans tell you proudly what they pay for a season ticket: only €190, around €11 (£8.95) a match, to watch Jürgen Klopp's German champions, last season's double winners, who stand top of their Champions League group. During their most recent Bundesliga home game, a 1-1 draw with Fortuna Düsseldorf – whose fans also made a constant, rousing noise – Dortmund's fans observed an uncharacteristic silence for the first 12 minutes and 12 seconds. New proposals to improve security at Bundesliga grounds, aimed particularly at eliminating flares, which are already anyway illegal, are to be discussed by all the clubs on 12 December, hence the 12/12 protest. Supporters groups have interpreted the suggestions, which include searching supporters at "high-risk" games and bans for those who break the rules, as a means by stealth to sedate German football's raucous, standing fan culture, an intention the Bundesliga emphatically denies.

To the English observer the protest was remarkable in several ways: the fans' united opposition to the politicians' threats of all-seater stadiums, whose atmospheres have profoundly unimpressed the Dortmund fans at away matches in England; the committed degree of organisation by the fans, and, most startling, the fact that the club itself supplied staff to help the fans protest. The Fan-Projekt, a team of social workers funded by the Bundesliga, city council and government to help young fans channel their football fervour in constructive ways, delivered the ultras their banners, flags and leaflets in a van. Then Jens Volke, a Borussia supporter liaison officer, described by the club's chief executive, Hans-Joachim Watzke, as a former "chief of our ultra fans", led them into the stadium at 4pm, four hours before kick-off, to lay a leaflet on every Westfalenstadion seat.

Its title: "What kind of football do you want?" Nicolai Maurer, 26, a member of Dortmund's unity ultras group – 260 young men and women, mostly in their early 20s – explained: "If there are some problems at the stadium we do not believe the answer is repression. The politicians are threatening that Germany must have seats, and we are worried it will be like England, where the football atmosphere was famous but now it is so quiet. At Manchester City [where Dortmund excelled in a 1-1 draw last month] it was a little better, but at Arsenal last year, we could not believe you could watch football so quietly. We don't want that." The league and the clubs insist they do not want all-seater stadiums, but defend the security proposals as a means of satisfying politicians concerned about flares and recent trouble at the Dortmund v Schalke derby. Still, they facilitated the fans' protest against their own proposals. Volke, known and clearly respected by the lads in the south stand who give him a clasped handshake as he weaves through them, explained: "This is their opinion, so we believe we should support free speech.

It is a policy of the club, we want young people to come here, to feel included, and we work with them, to help them use their energy in a positive way. They are not outsiders, they are part of the club." In the south stand, from a spot near the middle and low down, when you look back and up, the multitude of faces and yellow seem to flow up a wave higher than you can take in. Mostly, all around, the fans are young, if not quite as young as might be expected for €11 a match. Volke said about 40% are under 25, most in their early 20s; because so many have season tickets, new teenage fans are struggling to attend and the club is developing some initiatives to bring them in. As the match kicked off that vast wall of 25,000 up-for-it Borussia fans did indeed keep their sound to a low murmur, even as Klopp's fast young side, with its complement of home-developed young stars, zipped the ball around and immediately attacked. Eventually the clock on the video screen clicked on to 12 minutes, 12 seconds.

A young guy next to me smiled and said: "OK, it was nice to meet you, goodbye!" then launched into 77 minutes and 48 seconds of constant roaring, bellowing and chanting. Huge yellow flags unfurled, and the ultras, on a platform facing the thronging terrace, urged and led the fans' singing with a megaphone, literally banging the drum. Watzke, speaking before the game in one of the plush, strip-lit dining suites high in the all-seated east stand, had pointed over at the vast terrace. "This is our German football culture: to have standing, and cheap tickets, and the clubs controlled by their members," he said. "We want everybody to feel it is their club and that is really important. I was a supporter standing for 20 years, I know what it is to stand there, the feeling, the discussions you have there. In Germany we are a little bit romantic.

Where there is a club, the German supporter wants to have the feeling it is his club." Then he took his first dig at ownership elsewhere: "Not the club of Qatar or Abu Dhabi." A lifelong Dortmund supporter and a businessman with his own company, Watzke, the chief executive since Borussia's debt crisis in 2005, said ticket prices are kept low as a policy decision. "That is our way, to have cheap tickets. We have 28,000 places for standing in the stadium. If we make those areas into 15,000 seats, we have been advised we could make €5m more per season. But there was no question of doing it, because it is our culture. The young people start there, standing. They say of the club: 'It's mine.' And they will never let you down." Among Germany's well-organised supporter groups is Kein Zwanni (Not Twenty), a campaign to keep tickets cheap. Its spokesman, Dortmund fan Marc Quambusch, said: "You have to keep tickets affordable so poorer and young people can have the experience of being football supporters.

German football has a special relationship with supporters because we are the owners of the clubs; people do feel that very emotional sense of belonging and the clubs do listen to the fans. I feel we need to really value what we have." Watzke is a confirmed adherent to the Bundesliga rule that its clubs, with the historic exceptions of Bayer Leverkusen, Wolfsburg and more recently Hoffenheim, must be controlled "50% plus one" by their members. The other 33 of the 36 clubs, including Bayern Munich, which is 82% owned by its member-supporters, cannot be bought by a single person from outside, like the Premier League clubs, but instead are democratically answerable to their members. The rule, introduced to preserve sporting integrity when the two divisions of the Bundesliga broke away from the German FA, the DFB, in 2001, is pertinent at Dortmund. In 2000, raising €143m with the issue of new shares, Dortmund floated as a football company on the stock market.

In England when the top clubs floated, beginning with Tottenham Hotspur in 1983, they were allowed to form holding companies to bypass long-standing FA rules designed to keep a club ethos and prevent investors making fortunes out of them. In Germany, the 50% plus one rule remained, so at Dortmund investors had to understand they could not buy a controlling vote. The president, Reinhard Rauball, considered by fans a solid defender of their club's core values, is elected by the members, along with four more candidates to sit on the overall supervisory board. When Martin Kind, the major investor in Hannover, lobbied to have the 50% plus one rule changed so that he and other individuals could take control of clubs, Watzke said proudly: "I was the biggest opponent of changing the rule. Germans want to have that sense of belonging. Football is more than a business." Working in partnership with Rauball, Watzke has steered Dortmund's recovery from near-insolvency to current flourishing Bundesliga champions and leaders of the Champions League group over City, Ajax and Real Madrid, whom Klopp's team triumphantly beat 2-1 at the Westfalenstadion on 24 October.

By 2005 the club had blown its stock market windfall and run up debts of €122m, principally, Watzke said, by wasting money on overpriced players from overseas. The stadium had been hocked to a fund of the Commerzbank to which Borussia had to pay rent of an astonishing €17m a year. Watzke and advisers were backed by the merchant bank Morgan Stanley, which loaned €150m for a settlement with creditors, on average 70% of their debts, and Borussia were able to buy their stadium back for €80m. Then they had another issue of shares, the member-supporters still retaining voting control; Morgan Stanley subscribed for 30%, English and American funds bought the other 70%, and the club raised €53m.

With the ground always full, 80,000 for German matches, just under 66,000 for European, the Bundesliga's improved TV deals, worth €440m this season, (the new deal is for €2.5bn over the next four years), €60m annually from sponsorships and success on the field, Borussia's turnover has increased to €215m. Last week they announced a profit after tax of €34m; the debts are down from the €143m Watzke inherited, to €11m. Watzke emphasises that this coming together of passionate supporters paying cheaply en masse to support a club now flourishing at one of Europe's great stadiums centres around a pragmatic footballing philosophy and the course steered by Klopp. "We realised in 2007, when we had no money, that we needed a completely new way," he said. "We decided to buy only young players, who would give what the Dortmund people want: every effort." Thomas Doll, the former German international, was replaced as coach by Klopp, who came from Mainz in the second division, and immediately bought into Dortmund's prudent reliance on youth.

"We wanted a coach who could make players play to a plan, have a defensive structure, and give every effort, and when you looked at Mainz, you could see Jürgen Klopp was the right coach. We appointed him in 2008 and since then we have gone straight up." Into this philosophy fits the core of German and homegrown players, paid a fraction of City's all-starred wage bill, whom the fans embrace as their own, with Kevin Grosskreutz and Mario Götze particular favourites. Watzke said they had confidence the team would gain experience in the Champions League this season – last year he spotted a player, whom he wouldn't name, taking a picture of Robin van Persie when they went out on to the Emirates Stadium pitch before the game. The absence of owners bankrolling spending, Watzke said, encourages a sensible football philosophy. "There are many different ways to Rome," he reflected. "Chelsea have their way and they won the Champions League, but their question is: what happens after Abramovich? In Germany, we believe in the clubs as member clubs, and our fans must be our members, not our customers.

Here, this is the only way." To the Yellow Wall's approving roar, Jakub Blaszczykowski struck Dortmund into the lead against Düsseldorf with a floated right-foot volley just before half-time. But Klopp's side could not sharpen their endless possession into another finish, and with 12 minutes left Stefan Reisinger sparked surprised delight in the away fans with a smart, equalising downward header. Afterwards, Düsseldorf fans in red and white were drinking with Dortmund supporters in the Westfalenstadion Strobels bar; there was not a breath of trouble all night. In Germany they are tussling about flares, about managing the limits of a raucous and youthful fan culture they insist they want to nurture, not price out. On their monumental standing areas, with cheap tickets, and member-owned clubs whose executives hold forth about the game's soul, football in Germany speaks to us, of essentials we somehow managed to lose, of how football might be.

Dortmund Football Match & Tickets 28/11/2016 09:23:50 About Dortmund football tickets River Ruhr, River Emscher, woodland, ancient buildings, modern structures and football mark the city's vista for Dortmund. Borussia Dortmund (BVB) is not only the third largest club of Germany with a strong membership base of 100,000 people but also one of the most successful teams of Bundesliga. Founded in 1909, BVB has won eight German league titles, three DFB-Pokals and one Champions League trophy so far. By winning UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1966 they became the first club of the country to win a European title. It is quite understandable then that the local fans are crazy for Dortmund football tickets. BVB's homeground, Westfalenstadion is also the venue where maximum number of football matches in Dortmund takes place. Built in 1974, officially the stadium is known as Signal Iduna Park. The capacity of the stadium is greater than 65,000 and it hosts international matches on a regular basis. Why book with us? × Why book with us?

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A young and exciting Borussia Dortmund squad won the title, relegation went to the final day of the season, and the managerial roundabout turned at a bizarre pace. Dortmund kick-off the new term on Friday night when Jurgen Klopp's defending champions host Hamburg. And ahead of what promises to be another dramatic and eventful nine months, skysports.com's German correspondent, Thomas Zocher, considers the prospects of all 18 clubs. Augsburg Star man: Simon Jentzsch, goalkeeper League position in 2010/11: 2. Bundesliga runners-up Overview: It is going to be the first time Augsburg have featured in the Bundesliga. The progress is largely down to the work of Dutch manager Jos Luhukay and general manager Andreas Rettig. As he did at his former clubs in Germany, Luhukay has worked with a large amount of players from the Dutch Eredivisie. Luhukay, known for his soft and conceptual approach, will start his third season in charge of the club with the knowledge that staying in the top flight would be an even bigger success than leading the club to promotion.

Bayer Leverkusen Star man: Michael Ballack, midfielder League position in 2010/11: Runners-up Overview: Bayer Leverkusen are one of many Bundesliga clubs with a new manager. The departure of Jupp Heynckes, who returned to title rivals Bayern Munich, has been compensated with the arrival of former Freiburg boss Robin Dutt. Leverkusen's thinking behind the appointment of Dutt seems obvious. Dutt has had ongoing success at low-budget outfits. If he can reproduce this success, Leverkusen could rid themselves of the nickname of 'Neverkusen', which is based on their failure to win a Bundesliga title. There have been some squad changes. Star midfielder Arturo Vidal has joined Juventus and former Liverpool defender Sami Hyppia has retired. The biggest signing has been Andre Schurrle from Mainz. Leverkusen paid almost £7.5million for the Germany international, who has been a revelation in the past two years. Bayern Munich Star man: Mario Gomez, striker League position in 2010/11: Third Overview: It is a new manager and a handful of new signings at record Bundesliga title-winners Bayern Munich.

But the return of boss Jupp Heynckes from contenders Leverkusen brings back memories. Heynckes starts his third spell as manager of the club after a brief stint in 2009 and an earlier tenure in 1987. The club's most controversial signature of the summer, due to his lifelong affiliation with Schalke, was Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. But Neuer is expected to become an influential member of the Bayern team, despite the scepticism of club fans. The shot-stopper is undoubtedly among the best in the game and he joined Bayern because he feels they are the German club to meet his trophy aspirations. Bayern have spent almost £40million on transfers this summer, which is almost half of the overall spending of the whole league and provides a signal of their intent. Borussia Dortmund Star man: Shinji Kagawa, forward League position in 2010/11: Champions Overview: Last season was a pretty impressive campaign. The team won the Bundesliga title with a mixture of elegance and youth.

Players like Mario Gotze, Marcel Schmelzer, Nuri Sahin, Kevin Grosskreutz, Neven Subotic, Mats Hummels, Lucas Barrios or Shinji Kagawa performed extraordinarily well under the guidance of Jurgen Klopp. With the UEFA Champions League now on the horizon, Dortmund will hope to see an end to the trend shown at the conclusion of last season when Nuri Sahin, who has since moved onto Real Madrid, was injured and without him the team struggled. New arrival Ilkay Gundogan is poised to step into the boots left by Sahin in central midfield. This transfer was the biggest of Dortmund's this summer. Borussia Monchengladbach Star man: Marco Reus, forward League position in 2010/11: 16th (won relegation/promotion play-off) Overview: Seventy-two minutes into the second leg of the relegation/promotion play-off and the former Bundesliga giants finally secured top-flight status. This was the consequence of a massive run-in in their last five weeks of the Bundesliga under the guidance of Swiss tactician Lucien Favre.

Although the team beat title candidates Leverkusen 6-3 away from home in the starting phase of last season, the campaign developed into a struggle. Immense injury problems to first-team regulars saw them pick up just 10 points and concede 47 goals in their first 17 games of the season. When they then had their change of manager in early spring, many suggested it would turn out much too late to initiate a change of fortunes. But the young squad grabbed 26 points in the latter stages of the season, entered the relegation/promotion play-offs and finally found safety. Cologne Star man: Lukas Podolski, forward League position in 2010/11: 10th Overview: The biggest signing of the summer at Cologne is new manager Stale Solbakken, who had enjoyed success in charge of Danish outfit FC Copenhagen in recent years. The Norwegian did not wait long to leave his mark when he decided to take away the captain's armband from Germany international Lukas Podolski in favour of Portuguese defender Geromel.

General manager Volker Finke worked hard this summer to finally capture loanee Mato Jajalo from Siena and persuaded versatile Germany international Sascha Riether to move from Wolfsburg. Hamburg Star man: Eljero Elia, winger League position in 2010/11: Eighth Overview: The club failed to qualify for Europe for a second season in succession. This failure forced the club's authorities to have a certain change of plan. Rather than building their hopes on veteran players like Ruud van Nistelrooy or Frank Rost, the club has appointed recent Chelsea director of football Frank Arnesen. The Dane started his life at Hamburg with the capture of a handful of promising starlets, either on loan or permanent deals. England Under 21 international Michael Mancienne is among them, as is former Chelsea team-mate Jeffrey Bruma. This new squad is going to be managed by Michael Oenning, who will head into his second year at the club after being initially signed as assistant manager ahead of the last campaign. Oenning's record in the top flight is unimpressive, but he was in charge of Nurnberg when they returned to the top flight.

Freiburg Star man: Papiss Demba Cisse, striker League position in 2010/11: Ninth Overview: Freiburg were tipped to struggle last season, but surpassed expectations. Senegalese international Papiss Demba Cisse evolved into a star striker in the Bundesliga, netting 22 goals in 32 appearances and helping the small club to stay out of any relegation trouble. This has seen big clubs chase the former Metz man all summer. But the biggest change has taken place on the position of manager, with recent reserve-side coach Marcus Sorg replacing Robin Dutt after the latter received an offer to manage Bayer Leverkusen. Sorg will have a big job to fill the shoes of Dutt, while the Freiburg hierarchy hope that Mali striker Garra Dembele, a summer signature from Levski of Bulgaria, could be their next star. Hertha Berlin Star man: Adrian Ramos, forward League position in 2010/11: 2. Bundesliga champions Overview: It took just one season for the club from the capital to return to the top flight. A previous relegation ended 13 seasons in a row in the Bundesliga.

Former Liverpool defender Markus Babbel, who had taken over from the unlucky Friedhelm Funkel ahead of their promotion campaign, is their manager and he took advantage of the depths of one of his former clubs in signing Bayern Munich duo Thomas Kraft and Andreas Ottl on Bosmans to strengthen what had been the most expensive squad in the second division. Kraft is to take over from Dutchman Maikel Aerts in goal, while Ottl is to strengthen Hertha's midfield setup. In attacking areas the team are relying on Colombia international Adrian Ramos, Brazil midfielder Raffael and Germany U21 international Pierre-Michel Lasogga. This trio netted 38 of Hertha's 69 goals last season. Hannover Star man: Didier Ya Konan, striker League position in 2010/11: Fourth Overview: Hannover were one of the biggest surprise packages of last season. Tipped for nothing other than relegation, they almost qualified for the Champions League. Strikers Didier Ya Konan and Moa Abdellaoue were a key element in their success, as they scored goals for fun.

Manager Mirko Slomka was even able to change his goalkeeper in the middle of the season, with the effect that the new one, former Manchester United youngster Ron-Robert Zieler, is looking twice as good as the man he replaced. Hannover's successful style is based on speedy counter-attacking football and although the club found it tough to sign adequate players this summer, their main strength is that none of the players who left played a big role last season. Hoffenheim Star man: Sebastian Rudy, midfielder League position in 2010/11: 11th Overview: Hoffenheim's place in the Bundesliga is still a fairytale rise of a patron-sponsored village club. New manager Holger Stanislawski, who arrived from relegated St Pauli with the straight mission of building more on youth than on money, has no star-name new signing to speak of. Back-up goalkeeper Koen Casteels, who arrived from Genk of Belgium, has been the most expensive transfer of Hoffenheim's summer. This is different than in recent seasons when the club signed players like Demba Ba or Ryan Babel. And it is an indication Stanislawski is eager to work more on training than through spending.

Kaiserslautern Star man: Christian Tiffert, midfielder League position in 2010/11: Seventh Overview: It was their strong form in the final weeks of last season, in which they won five out of six matches, that earned Kaiserslautern an impressive finish of seventh in their first campaign back in the Bundesliga. Over the summer, general manager Stefan Kuntz and manager Marco Kurz, the men behind the revamp of the South West German team, have worked very hard on finding suitable replacements for outgoing first-team regulars. They clinched Israel international duo Itay Shechter and Gil Vermouth from Hapoel Tel-Aviv, a striker and a midfielder, hoping these two players will be capable of filling the boots of Srdjan Lakic and Jan Moravek. The main target for the new season is still to avoid relegation, according to Kuntz. Mainz Star man: Sami Allagui, striker League position in 2010/11: Fifth Overview: Last season, everyone expected Mainz to fail, just because the minnows had been brilliant the previous season. They did not.

Young manager Thomas Tuchel proved the club's previous success was no one-time achievement. Ahead of this season it is much the same. German football followers do not believe the South West club will again be able to overachieve. As much as Tuchel will try to prove them wrong, he will have to admit there is a difficult task ahead of him. The club lost three key players this summer and despite picking up money for all of them, funds are no replacement for quality on the pitch. Mainz have signed 10 new players and most of them are youngsters from other leagues, such as former Aston Villa reserves Zoltan Stieber. Mainz will also have to contend with the demands and fixture congestion of a campaign in the Europa League. Nurnberg Star man: Horacio Javier Pinola, full back League position in 2010/11: Sixth Overview: It has been a bumpy ride at Nurnberg in recent seasons. In 2010/2011 their policy of loan signings paid off. Striker Julian Schieber was a huge success, so was midfielder Mehmet Ekici and fellow midfielder Jens Hegeler.

In addition, Ilkay Gundogan was a delight in the centre of the park alongside Belgian veteran Timmy Simons. But the club's financial situation means they were not able to keep many of their stars. Gundogan was sold to Dortmund, Schieber returned to parent club Stuttgart and Bayern Munich's Ekici joined Werder Bremen. Manager Dieter Hecking consequently needs to re-start this season with a handful of youngsters and a few more new loan signatures. Schalke Star man: Raul Gonzalez Blanco, forward League position in 2010/11: 14th Overview: The 2010/11 season was a campaign of mixed emotions. They have had massive success in the knockout competitions, reaching the Champions League semi-finals and winning the German Cup, but they also had a huge disappointment in the Bundesliga with a bottom-half finish. More than halfway through the season the club's authorities sacked manager Felix Magath and re-signed Ralf Rangnick. Under Rangnick the club promised to adjust costs with no less than 12 players from the first-team squad leaving this summer.

The club also decided to accept a £20million bid from Bayern Munich for their Germany international goalkeeper Manuel Neuer after the shot-stopper admitted he would not sign a contract extension. Schalke signed a free agent in Ralf Fahrmann as replacement. General manager Horst Heldt feels finishing eighth this season would be a success. Stuttgart Star man: Christian Gentner, midfielder League position in 2010/11: 12th Overview: Cutting down costs in the wake of rebuilding Mercedes-Benz-Arena has been the main focus of the administration of Stuttgart. This started with the sale of Sami Khedira to Real Madrid a year ago and continued with the latest sale of Christian Trasch to Wolfsburg. The main focus of manager Bruno Labbadia remains to ensure his club have a better first half of the season after slow starts in the past decade. Labbadia is keen to avoid repeating the mistakes of predecessors Markus Babbel and Christian Gross, who were both sacked in the early stages of the season.

Werder Bremen Star man: Claudio Pizarro, striker League position in 2010/11: 13th Overview: Life at Weserstadion could be a lot easier. General manager Klaus Allofs and manager Thomas Schaaf, who have both been in their jobs with the North Germans since 1999, have both admitted lately it has been difficult in recent months. Much of their displeasure is down to the lack of money available after an unsuccessful previous season which left them stranded in the bottom six. Hit by long-term injuries to key players such as defender Naldo and striker Claudio Pizarro, the club have had difficulties signing players. Almost the entire summer budget was spent on Turkey international Mehmet Ekici, a playmaker who it is hoped will fill the void left by the departure of Mesut Ozil to Real Madrid in 2010. Wolfsburg Star man: Christian Trasch, midfielder League position in 2010/11: 15th Overview: Last season was a campaign to forget for the Volkswagen Arena outfit. They spent big, they had appointed Steve McClaren and then they found themselves struggling.

In the end the Volkswagen company stepped in to decide that neither McClaren nor general manager Dieter Hoeness should carry on. It was Felix Magath, the mastermind behind the club winning the Bundesliga in 2009, who was handed the task of keeping the club in the top flight and the target was achieved on the final day of the season. The recent Schalke manager has used the summer and pre-season for a squad clear-out, working to bring back the golden moments of his first spell at the North Germans.

Question: In which city is the largest football stadium in Germany, home to the 2010-2011 Bundesliga champions?
Answer: DORTMUND